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|accepted_name=Cyperus pseudovegetus
|accepted_authority=Steudel
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Syn. Pl. Glumac.
|place=2: 24. 1855
|year=1855
}}
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=W1
|label=
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|code=F
|label=Illustrated
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|code=E
|label=Endemic
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|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Cyperus;Cyperus subg. Pycnostachys;Cyperus pseudovegetus
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Cyperaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Cyperus]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subgenus</small>[[Cyperus subg. Pycnostachys]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Cyperus pseudovegetus]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 143
|treatment_page=page 156
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> perennial, cespitose; rhizomes upright, 5–8 mm diam., indurate. <b>Culms</b> trigonous, 30–50(–80) cm × 1.8–2.5 mm, glabrous. <b>Leaves</b> 4–7(–10), V-shaped, (20–)40–60 cm × 4.5–8 mm. <b>Inflorescences</b>: heads dense, hemispheric, 7–15(–18) mm diam; or if rays absent, heads dense, irregularly lobate, 2–3.5 cm diam.; rays 3–6, 1–30 mm; 2d order rays infrequently present, to 5 mm; bracts (5–)10–15(–40), horizontal to ascending at 30(–45)°, V-shaped, 6–30(–40) cm × 5–8(–10) mm. <b>Spikelets</b> 40–100, greenish white, flattened, ovoid, 3.5–5 × 3–4 mm; floral scales (8–)12–16, uniformly light greenish to light brown, laterally 1-ribbed, medially indistinctly 3-ribbed, basally 2-keeled, oblong-spatulate, widest at or above median, 2–2.5 × (0.7–)1–1.2 mm, apex minutely mucronate, scabridulous, infrequently glabrous. <b>Flowers</b>: stamen 1; anthers oblong, 0.7–1 mm, connective apex subulate, prolonged 0.1–0.2 mm; styles thick, confluent with apex of, and persistent on, achene, 0.5–0.8 mm; stigmas 0.6–1 mm. <b>Achenes</b> brown, stipitate, linear, slightly curved, 1.2–1.4 × 0.2(–0.3) mm, base whitish, stipe spongy, 0.1–0.2 × 0.2 mm, apex acute, surfaces papillose.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting summer.
|habitat=Damp places
|elevation=0–200 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Del.;D.C.;Fla.;Ga.;Ill.;Ind.;Kans.;Ky.;La.;Md.;Mass.;Mo.;N.J.;N.C.;Okla.;S.C.;Tenn.;Tex.;Va.
|discussion=<p><i>Cyperus pseudovegetus</i> has been called “<i>Cyperus</i> vegetus Willd.” (M. L. Fernald 1950). The var. megalanthus Kükenthal of eastern Mexico and Central America recognized by M. F. Denton (1978b) is now considered a distinct species, C. megalanthus (Kükenthal) G. C. Tucker (see G. C. Tucker 1994).</p><!--
--><p><i>Cyperus pseudovegetus</i> is introduced in Massachusetts.</p>
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name=Cyperus pseudovegetus
|authority=Steudel
|rank=species
|parent rank=subgenus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting summer.
|habitat=Damp places
|elevation=0–200 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Del.;D.C.;Fla.;Ga.;Ill.;Ind.;Kans.;Ky.;La.;Md.;Mass.;Mo.;N.J.;N.C.;Okla.;S.C.;Tenn.;Tex.;Va.
|reference=None
|publication title=Syn. Pl. Glumac.
|publication year=1855
|special status=W1;Illustrated;Endemic
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|genus=Cyperus
|subgenus=Cyperus subg. Pycnostachys
|species=Cyperus pseudovegetus
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